Medical Statistics

Medical statistics is a major area of statistical endeavour, and has had a considerable influence on clinical medicine and public health through applications, for instance, to the design and analysis of clinical trials and the epidemiology of chronic and infectious diseases.

The purpose of this Research Group is to foster further research into the theory and application of methodology to medical statistics, to encourage collaboration between its members and to establish the OU’s Department of Statistics as a centre for medical statistics research.

Some examples of medical statistics research carried out by members of the group are:

Allowing for learning when assessing new health technologies

Allowing for recall bias in the analysis of case-control studies

Case-only study designs in epidemiology

Estimation of the reproduction number and other epidemiological parameters for infectious diseases